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KMUW - Wichita Public Radio is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Fletcher Powell.

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If That Mockingbird Don't Sing (2024) Fletcher Powell It's an impressive thing just to let the movie come to you when you're a young director...
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2024) Fletcher Powell If you’re the sort of person who’s able to manage a nearly constant stream of dissonant feelings, you’re likely to get a lot out of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which is largely excellent, and never easy.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Sorry, Baby (2025) Fletcher Powell Sorry, Baby is unquestionably one of the best movies of the year, and uncommonly generous in its treatment of an exceptionally difficult experience.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
She Rides Shotgun (2025) Fletcher Powell I give She Rides Shotgun a whole lot of credit ... even if it doesn’t quite find a perfect balance between showing us [the] human side of things and also giving us a fairly typical thriller.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Pickup (2025) Fletcher Powell For the life of me, I’ll never understand how you’d cast Eddie Murphy in your action comedy and then have him play the straight man.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Thursday Murder Club (2025) Fletcher Powell The movie is, basically, what you expect, if a little bit less than that, which is to say it’s plenty light and charming, notwithstanding all the murder, and everyone seems to be having a good time.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Relay (2024) Fletcher Powell What you don’t see so often are movies about would-be whistleblowers who change their minds and don’t do anything. And that’s because it’s a stupid idea.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Went Up the Hill (2024) Fletcher Powell Went Up the Hill never does seem like it’s sure how to come together into a coherent whole, but it’s made up of some surprisingly effective parts.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Darkman (1990) Fletcher Powell You can almost hear Raimi cackling as he zooms his camera around and superimposes floating faces on the screen... You can tell he’s having a blast, and you can’t help but to have fun with him.
Posted Aug 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Annihilation of Fish (1999) Fletcher Powell There’s a lot in the film that isn’t meant to be taken literally, and if you insist on a literal reading of it, you may struggle with its strangeness and silliness. But metaphor exists for a reason...
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Last Bullet (2025) Fletcher Powell [S]ome really good, grimy, car-crunching fun.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Tornado (2025) Fletcher Powell There’s minimalist and then there’s nothing-al-ist.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Dangerous Animals (2025) Fletcher Powell As far as it all goes, having a murdery shark guy is a pretty good idea, and Dangerous Animals proves that well enough for 90 minutes.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Life of Chuck (2024) Fletcher Powell [T]he film is constantly undermining itself with its inability to decide on a tone.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Sally (2025) Fletcher Powell I don't think the new documentary Sally oversells the magnitude of [Ride's] profile at the time. She was as big as they say she is.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Sovereign (2025) Fletcher Powell Any talk about Sovereign probably begins and ends with Nick Offerman, who is unlike I’ve ever seen him before and is very good, but who, like the movie, also never quite elevates into being great.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Found Footage: The Making of The Patterson Project (2025) Fletcher Powell [T]here are much worse things in the world than an imperfect movie with modest goals that mostly wants to make you laugh and mostly succeeds.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Bonjour Tristesse (2024) Fletcher Powell More slow sunny shots on the beach are fine as far as it goes, but at some point enough is enough.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Summer of 69 (2025) Fletcher Powell None of it ever becomes profound—at all—but it’s also not trying to.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Close Your Eyes (2023) Fletcher Powell Close Your Eyes is exactly what I’d hoped for, which is to say, it left me nearly speechless.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Order (2024) Fletcher Powell ...as gritty and dirty as it needs to be...
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) Fletcher Powell It’s curious, unusual, and a little bit mesmerizing.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Carry-On (2024) Fletcher Powell There are, of course, plot holes large enough to fly a Dreamliner through... but these are problems you expect from a movie like this.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fire Inside (2024) Fletcher Powell A rousing and empowering movie that reminds us there’s still a whole lot of fighting left to do even after the final bell rings.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) Fletcher Powell This is why we love sitting in front of those big screens for hours on end.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Sing Sing (2023) Fletcher Powell If you’re an awards group that hands out a prize for best ensemble acting in a movie, there’s not a lot of reason to look further this year than Sing Sing.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Nickel Boys (2024) Fletcher Powell Nickel Boys is the best movie of 2024 by a country mile, and easily one of the best of the century.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
A Real Pain (2024) Fletcher Powell A huge step up for Eisenberg as a director.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
All We Imagine as Light (2024) Fletcher Powell Like the best movies of this kind, and this is one of the best movies of this kind, the film is not entirely starry-eyed about what its city is...
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Queen of the Ring (2024) Fletcher Powell Burke turns out to be an incredibly fascinating person… who deserves a much better movie made about her.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Freaky Tales (2024) Fletcher Powell Here is a strange case of a movie that I’m going to recommend you see, even though I don’t think it’s particularly successful.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Eephus (2024) Fletcher Powell The thing about baseball is the rhythm.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Thank You Very Much (2023) Fletcher Powell (I)t doesn’t simply throw up its hands and declare Kaufman to be ultimately unknowable.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (2023) Fletcher Powell The movie’s first-time feature director, Tomás Gómez Bustillo, periodically pokes us from unpredictable angles, making us laugh, or at least smile ...
Posted Jan 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) Fletcher Powell It’s plenty apparent Sutherland has some good instincts.
Posted Feb 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Upgraded (2024) Fletcher Powell Upgraded has sharper edges and better comic timing than a lot of rom-coms, even if the romance part of the equation seems like an afterthought.
Posted Feb 15, 2024  Edit critic review
The Iron Claw (2023) Fletcher Powell One thing Sean Durkin does magnificently is to evoke (a) specific time and place...
Posted Feb 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Poor Things (2023) Fletcher Powell I never thought the day would come when I’d have to give it up for Yorgos Lanthimos.
Posted Feb 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Wonka (2023) Fletcher Powell Wonka is an imperfect but kind of lovely little treat...
Posted Feb 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Eileen (2023) Fletcher Powell Where we ultimately end up is a little more muddled than it ought to be, and a little less unnerving than it wants to be. Still, Oldroyd controls the movie’s darkness with the slightest wisp of a mischievous smile...
Posted Feb 13, 2024  Edit critic review
May December (2023) Fletcher Powell The two women are astonishingly good here, but at least as good is Charles Melton...
Posted Feb 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Saltburn (2023) Fletcher Powell You don’t get to feed us nonsense and then expect us to thank you when you try to explain it.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
The Holdovers (2023) Fletcher Powell The warmth with which Payne shows the humanity in his characters helps each one of them unfold into a real, complex person.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Quiz Lady (2023) Fletcher Powell I didn’t expect to be moved by a silly movie like this one, but sometimes pure talent wins out.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
The Burial (2023) Fletcher Powell The Burial is far more successful as courtroom entertainment than as an investigation of corporate malfeasance... But it is good entertainment, and it’s exactly the sort of thing many of us wish Hollywood would make a dozen more of every year.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Passages (2023) Fletcher Powell (Rogowski commands) every second of a movie that is itself powerful, painful, and complex.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Flora and Son (2023) Fletcher Powell It makes all the difference that Carney truly believes what he’s telling us.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Cassandro (2023) Fletcher Powell This is a beautiful performance depicting a fascinating man who, it appears, really did change some things.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Jules (2023) Fletcher Powell I’ll be darned if there isn’t something to this thing.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Self Reliance (2023) Fletcher Powell The film’s early nonsense is so much fun that I wish Johnson could have recaptured it by the end.
Posted Feb 08, 2024  Edit critic review
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